The Road Less Travelled
Music Review: The Fab Four Performing Abbey Road Live, Saturday, August 3, 2019, The Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA Concert review by Eric Sandberg Photos by Michael Berman "Whew!" Ardy Sarraf must have been thinking moments after crooning "...someday I'm gonna make her mine" last night in Costa Mesa. A lot of the more casual Beatles fans were already flooding the exits when Sarraf and guest guitarist Doug Couture sauntered back on stage to remind everybody that the "The End" isn't quite the end of Abbey Road . In fact, "Her Majesty" was followed by a relaxed and relief-driven encore of "Hey Jude" forcing many of the early Beatlexiteers to freeze in their spots like latecomers to a baseball park during the National Anthem. This capped off a sublime evening of Beatles music from Sarraf as Paul McCartney, Joe Bologna emulating Ringo Starr, Liverpudlian Gavin Pring as George Harrison,and Newc